Pelletier was born in
Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in
Saint-Lambert, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1992
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Richelieu Champlain
minor ice hockey team. Pelletier was drafted out of
Cornell University by the
Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the
1997 NHL Entry Draft with the 30th overall pick. He played the 1997–98 season with the
Rimouski Océanic of the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and also played for Team USA at the
1998 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Pelletier joined the Flyers' AHL affiliate, the
Philadelphia Phantoms in
1998–99. He also appeared in one NHL game that season for the Flyers, a 0-5 loss against the
Ottawa Senators. He made brief stops in the NHL in two other seasons, appearing in two games for the
Phoenix Coyotes in the
2002–03 season and four more in the
2003–04 season. At the end of November 2006, Pelletier signed a contract with
Adler Mannheim of the
DEL to replace
Robert Müller, who was diagnosed with a
brain tumor. After the season, he signed a one-year-contract with the
Hamburg Freezers. ==Career statistics==